Manoj Bajpayee is enjoying the OTT market as he has been part of several successful ventures in the streaming market. With his latest work – The Family Man Season 2 yet to arrive on Amazon Prime (Slated for 12th February). Bajpayee has announced his next venture a crime thriller movie titled ‘Despatch’. The movie will be having a direct to digital release as announced by Bajpayee.
Manoj Bajpayee took to his social media handle and announced that his next project is a movie titled ‘Despatch’ which will be an edge of the seat thriller. This is a nice move by the makers, seeing the love for thrillers nowadays and especially in the OTT platforms where thrillers are ruling the market.
‘Despatch’ is an investigative thriller which will focus on the world of crime journalism. The movie will follow Manoj Bajpayee’s character who finds himself deeply stuck in the business of crime.
Talking about the production, ‘Despatch’ is produced by RSVP Movies and Ronnie Screwvala. The movie is being directed by Kanu Behl who has served as writer in movies like Oye Lucky Lucky Oye and Love Sex Aur Dhoka. His directorial debut Titli won major recognition worldwide and was screened in many film festivals.
Apart from Bajpayee, the starcast of ‘Despatch’ looks fresh and consists of actors like – Shahana Goswami, Rituparna “Rii” Sen, Arrchita Agarwal. The movie is written by Ishani Banerjee.
Commenting about the movie, director Kanu Behl expressed his emotions by saying that Despatch is a story that he’s been focused on telling for a long time as it reflects our lives and it couldn’t be more of a perfect time to delve into the project. Plus the addition of Manoj Bajpayee and Ronnie Screwvala is exciting.
While there is not information so as to which platform the movie will be arriving as of yet. Also no release date of the movie has been announced as of yet.